Community Mentoring Program

The ASCILITE Community Mentoring Program seeks to involve participants in a professional mentoring relationship built between learners (the mentees) and experienced practitioners (the mentors). Whilst the new learners may be experienced in some areas of educational technologies, the ASCILITE Community Mentoring Program is a vehicle for enhancement of specific knowledge, skills or capacities in an area of developing expertise. This arrangement is formalised through a Mentoring Agreement.

We define mentoring as collaboration between ASCILITE members for the purpose of achieving an agreed goal through dialogue, action and reflection. The focus of these collaborations can be across a number of areas which can include:

Academic practice

Early career research

Teaching innovations

Learning design

Graphic design

Programming

The Community Mentoring Program offers two partnering alternatives:

For a mentee to work individually with a mentor on a project

For several mentees to work collaboratively with a pair of mentors on projects related to a negotiated overall theme.

Mentoring partners

agree on a common goal or goals that are achievable over six months

agree to regular contact, at least once per month for six months

formally participate in an evaluation of the program which may be disseminated through conferences/journal articles

report back on the outcomes of their projects

if possible, participate in a Community Mentoring Program Symposium at the annual ASCILITE Conference.

The benefits of participation in the Program include:

expansion of skills, knowledge and experience in a chosen field;

development of communication and leadership skills;

opportunity for networking and to create contacts outside of the individual’s own workplace;

enhancement of confidence to actively participate in the ascilite community.

Application Process

After the ASCILITE yearly conference, Expressions of Interest are invited from ASCILITE members who wish to be a mentee or a mentor. This is a competitive process and successful mentees are matched with mentors who have expertise in applicable areas. Both mentees and mentors are eligible for a 50% discount on their ASCILITE conference registration if the aims of their respective mentoring agreement have been achieved towards the end of the year.

Timeline Estimates

December – Call for expressions of interest

February – Successful applicants are contacted

February – Mentor Agreements are signed

November – End of year reports are due

December – ASCILITE conference

2019 Application Forms & Closing Date

The Call for Expressions of Interest in the 2019 Community Mentoring Program is now open and you will find application forms below. Applications are due 1 February 2019 11 February 2019.

Further Information

The CMP Chair, Sue Gregory is the main point of contact for the program. If you wish to know more about the Community Mentoring Program, please email Sue below and forward applications to the ASCILITE Secretariat.

A/Prof Sue Gregory
Community Mentoring Program Chair
Chair of Research and member of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) team
University of New England